Truss-pad



C. GILSON.

TRUSS PAD No. 439,141. Paten-ted 0701;. .28, 1890( @Moz/140,169

PATENT OFFICE.

CICERO GIISON, OF AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.

TRoss-PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming pm of Letters Patent No. 439,141, dated October 28, 1890.

Application filed February 28,1899. i Serial llo. 342,046. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GICERO GiLsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Augusta, in the county of Richmond and State of Geor- 1a, Dad, of which the following is aspecification. This in vention has relation to improvements n pads for trusses for the treatment f heriias; and among the objects in view are to provide a pad so constructed as to be readily "attached to the body-band of the truss and adjusted to any position thereon and to provide for the substitution of various springs of greater or less tension, whereby the same pad t and truss may be employed for the treatment of different hernias, which, as is well known,

require various degrees of'pressure. With the above objects in view the invention consists in certain features of construction hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of a truss provided with pads constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail in rear perspective of one of the pads. Fig. 3 is a detail in longitudinal section of the pad Fig. 4, a detail of the spring; Fig. 5, a similar view of the stud.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

The terminals of the body-band 1 are provided with the opposite pads 2, of the usual external shape, and has its rear face provided with a circular recess 3, extending partially through the same, the bottom of the recess being provided with a central cavity or bearing 4. (See Fig. 3.) A metal plate 5 is secured to the rear of the pad by means of screws 6, inserted through openings 7, terminating in the pad, said plate being provided with a cen tral opening 8, smaller than and concentric with the circular recess in the pad. Through the opening 8 is passed a stud 9, the inner end 'of which terminates within the circular recess of the pad, and is provided with a circular disk 10, having a concaved inner face, said disk serving to prevent a withdrawal of the stud from the recess of the pad by coming in contact with the rear plate 5. The inner end of the stud is also provided with a central cavity 11, which is directly opposite the cavity or bearing in the bottom of the circular recess of the pad. A coiled spring 12 is inserted in the recess 3 of the pad, said spring being of 5 5 the requisite tension and having its terminals have invented a new and useful Truss` 13 occurring in the axial plane of the spring and each taking into one of the concavities or bearings 4 and 11 formed in the bottom of the recess of the pad and the inner end of the stud, respectively. The opposite or outer end of the stud is threaded exterior-ly, as at 14, and upon the threads is mounted a bindingnut 15, and the end of the stud is longitudinally kerfed or bifurcated,as at 16, for a portion of its length, the inner end of the recess or kerf being preferably wedge-shaped or contracted, as at 17. In this recess 16 is inserted the body-band or wire, after which the binding-nut is screwed home, so as to bind the body-band or wire snuglyin the wedgeshaped opening. By loosening the nut it is apparent that the pad may be swung to any desired angle, so that the pad may be applied to any of the affected parts. By reason of theconstruction described it will also be apparent that the spring will always be exactly centered, so that the movement of the pad upon the stud will be directand steady, and the pad, therefore, never deflected. By removing the screws from the metal plate at the rear of the pad the coiled spring may be removed and a lighter or heavier spring substituted therefor, whereby the same truss may be employed for the treatment of various forms of hernias.

Having described my invention, what I claimis- In a truss, the combination,with the bodyband, of the pad provided with a rear circular recess having-a central cavity, a metal plate mounted over the cavity and having an opening, a stud mounted for movement in the opening and having its inner end provided with a cavity and a surrounding concaved ange to prevent withdrawal from the opening, the outer end of the studv being longitudinally kerfed tol receive the body-band, a binding-nut threaded on the stud, and acoiled spring mounted in the recess of the pad and vhaving its terminals extended to form axial bearing ends in the same axial plane with the spring and taking into the cavities of the stud and recess, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CICERO GILSON.

Vitnesses:

I. G. WORRILL, R. H. PEARCE.

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It is hereby certified that the name of the patentee in Letters Patent No. 439,141:

granted October 28, 18907 for an improvement in TrussePads, Was erroneously Written and printed Cicero Glson, Whereas said name should have been Written and printed Cicero Gibson; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the ease in the Patent Office.

Signed, eountersigned7 and sealed this 6th day of January A. D. 1891.

GYRUS Busser,- Assz'stcmt Secretary of the Interim [SEAL] Countersigned U. E. MITCHELL,

Commissioner of Patents. 

